You know that the Fire Eagle badge can be used to embed your present location anywhere, (i’ll give a prize to anyone who sends me a photo of the badge on a Chumby), but did you know that the Fire Eagle badge can also tell you where you have been?! It’s true!!
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When you display your fire eagle badge, the embedded map tries to pick the best zoom level for your location’s bounding box. This depends on how granular your location is (we know you are on 123 Main st vs we know you are in the state of Nevada) but it also tries to show […]
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Turns out I listen to the Fire Eagle Badge users. The badge no longer defaults to Pacific time. You want Solomon Is. Time? You got it! What other US centric limitation am I going to get rid of next? Unicode support?! Now you’re talking crazy. Actually Unicode support […]
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The FireEagle badge has been up for a week and I have users checking in from Buenos Aires, Hong Kong, Moscow and Isle of Man. Oh also Iowa. Very cool.
I’ve been using ZoneTag to update my personal FireEagle location, which I figured out has a ‘continuous upload’ mode, so I don’t […]
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After my unpleasant experience hacking up a WordPress plugin to display location within my blog, I decided to write my own Fire Eagle badge that isn’t associated with any particular service or CMS. Here is how it works: You authenticate against Fire Eagle, I give you a few lines of HTML, you insert the […]
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